Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 21, 2011

China is America's third-largest export market, behind Canada and Mexico, accounting for 7% of US exports as of August 2011. America's biggest exports to China in the first eight months of 2011 were waste and scrap ($8 billion, 12% of total exports), soybeans ($5 billion, 8%), aircraft and related items ($4.2

Apparel 14

Apparel Real Estate Automotive Globalization 14

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 28, 2018

But the real tragedy happened later: a timid recovery during 2010-11 was followed by a second recession starting in the third quarter of 2011, from which Europe did not start recovering until 2015. But one cannot forget that policy in the Euro area is complex and subject to political constraints. What went wrong?

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Crisis Policies GDP Politics 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 5, 2018

Prediction is the Holy Grail for more effectively executing mass scale operations in marketing, financial risk, fraud detection, and beyond. These predictions directly inform the action to take with each individual, e.g., by marketing to those most likely to buy and auditing those most likely to commit fraud. Insight Center.

Objective 9

Objective Software Business Objectives Learning-by-Doing 9

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 19, 2015

It boasted rapid economic growth, abundant natural resources, and a large (and increasingly wealthy) market of 200 million consumers. Each requires leaders to pay particular attention to nuances related to the Brazilian market. In the early 2000s, Brazil became the darling of corporate investment.

Strategy 8

Strategy Depreciation EBITDA Price 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 11, 2013

Just a few examples illustrate some of the pressing issues: South Africa''s power distribution network has an estimated maintenance backlog of $4 billion — equivalent to half of the country''s total investment in electric power generation and distribution in 2011. an estimated $100 billion per year. We need to streamline delivery.

Transportation 8

Transportation GDP Globalization Finance 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 27, 2010

new product, distribution channel, marketing approach). Look beyond your best customers to those who face a constraint that inhibits their ability to solve the problems they face in their life. An innovation that transforms a market or creates a new one through simplicity, convenience, affordability or accessibility.

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Innovation Govindarajan Disruptive Innovation Business Model 15

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 8, 2011

We recently attended the World Economic Forum's India Economic Summit 2011 in Mumbai, where we moderated several panels and workshops on the topic of innovation. The experience gave us some insights into a unique approach to innovation called jugaad , which entrepreneurs and enterprises are practicing in complex emerging markets like India.

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Innovation Incubator Banking Hypercompetition 16

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 29, 2015

If you ask someone who works in finance (as I had to) about PE and innovation, he or she will likely tell you that PE sponsors aren’t looking for the next big thing—they’re looking for companies that are dominant in a market, aren’t risky, and have a predictable and steady stream of cash to pay back debt.

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LBO Innovation Sample Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2011

AT&T's recently announced acquisition of T-Mobile will invite hellfire from telecom regulators who fantasize over a different market structure, in which 17 mom-and-pop carriers serve the masses with tender love and care. Wireless telephone prices are falling, a sign of competitive markets. The answer is likely no.

Wireless 12

Wireless Price Marketing Survey 12

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2016

Today’s executives are dealing with a complex and unprecedented brew of social, environmental, market, and technological trends. Flooding in 2011 in Thailand, harmed 160 companies in the textile industry and halted nearly a quarter of the country’s garment production, increasing global prices by 28%.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Price Loyalty Efficiency 8

The Horizons Tracker

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

This manpower should consist of teams built around the innovators themselves to help with things like marketing, change management and investment appraisal. Complete, strengthen and extend the EU Single Market and the EU Digital Single Market. of total NHS spending devoted to the adoption of innovation.

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Innovation Productivity Products Technology 102

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 1, 2011

Today, the Legatum Institute releases its 2011 Index, and we were eager to know what might have changed. The Index finds that African citizens are the most optimistic in the world about entrepreneurship, but this resource remains underused because of various constraints—most notably poor infrastructure.

GDP 9

GDP Social Capital Globalization Entrepreneur 9

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 19, 2015

“Your biggest constraint is how many hours you have to devote to this side project, so commit to an end-date [when you’d ideally like to leave your job] and solve backward from there,” he says. Or pay a freelance consultant to do market research? For instance, can you hire someone to help you code? Patch weak spots.

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Project Outsourcing Learning-by-Doing Commitment 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 29, 2017

Homogenized content, with far less diversity than an open market would support, was the result. ” The interference problem was the stated premise, but the object of regulators’ desire — and of the interests they loved (or feared) most — was control over wireless markets. Armstrong’s Killer App.

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Armstrong Wireless Succession Licensing 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2016

In a thoughtful review of the Affordable Care Act in The Journal of the American Medical Association , President Obama ends with a discussion of “lessons for future policy makers.” Changing this antiquated approach to defining quality starts with cooperation in the market, not competition.

Health Care 8

Health Care Proposal Quality Cooper 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 16, 2013

These tried-and-true tools of the retail trade might not be as sexy as other forms of marketing. Mobile wallets, like Apple''s Passbook, bring coupons, gift cards, and loyalty cards together in one place without the constraints of a physical wallet. Customers Information & technology Marketing' Gift cards. Loyalty points.

Brand 8

Brand Loyalty Retail Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 9, 2013

Instead, supply is determined once and for all by artificially-arranged resource constraints.". The question, really, is whether you can pick the right "resource constraints" ahead of time. That doesn''t have to be the end: Bitcoin already survived a price boom and bust in 2011.

Price 8

Price Constraint Real Estate GDP 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 20, 2012

Until two decades ago, India's business groups diversified wildly because of the constraints to growth posed by licensing and anti-monopoly regulations. While business opportunities in India's consumer market may be elephantine in size, it's a challenge to find sufficient ammunition — that is, capital — to go after them.

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur Competitive Advantage Wilde Constraint 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 21, 2013

For many years, beginning in 1942, Premarin was the only hormone replacement therapy drug on the market derived from a natural source. A series of patents were issued on the drug in the 1940s, but long after they had expired, there were still no generic competitors on the market. Such was not the case.

Intangible Assets 8

Intangible Assets Merchandising Innovation Pharmaceuticals 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2016

As of February 2016, the top 10 unicorns for market capitalization are: Uber, Xiaomi, Airbnb, Palantir, Meituan-Dianping, Snapchat, Didi Kuaidi, Flipkart, and SpaceX. Snapchat, an idea conceived in 2011, is now valued around $16 billion, with more than 100 million active users who send an average of over 400 million snaps per day.

Company 8

Company Succession Analysis Entrepreneur 8

N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 6, 2010

I would suggest that rather than seeking what cannot in most cases ever be achieved, that it makes more sense to seek the highest standard of quality that can be delivered in the shortest period of time, and that is economically balanced relative to the constraints of an ever shifting marketplace. I completely agree with General Patton.

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Blog Leadership Competitive Advantage Brand 419

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2011

No wonder more and more executives are championing experimentation over (or as a precursor to) time-honored analytic approaches like strategic planning and market research, as we showed in our previous post. His next book is Intrapreneurship: Managing Ideas within Your Organization (University of Toronto Press, 2011).

Analysis 14

Analysis Constraint Transportation Strategic Planning 14

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 24, 2013

And the Business Roundtable , picking up where it left off in the summer of 2011, has continued its ineffectual pleas for the president and Congress to find a solution to the deficit , while failing to offer a single concrete solution. CEO tenure dropped precipitously, more than 25 percent between 1980 and 2000.

Banking 8

Banking Crisis CEO Politics 8